Fun useless fact but the Greek statues and the later Roman reproductions and/or imitations were almost always painted, just the paint tended to wear away over the years and there has been a willful ignorance to the paint fragments left remaining by earlier art historians.
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Reply to Hercules statue, approximately 2,000 years old, discovered in Greece - The Jerusalem Post by DRKILLM0NGER
Fun useless fact but the Greek statues and the later Roman reproductions and/or imitations were almost always painted, just the paint tended to wear away over the years and there has been a willful ignorance to the paint fragments left remaining by earlier art historians.